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Actual Innocence--Five Days to Execution and other Dispatches From the Wrongly Convicted
Loaded on Dec. 15, 2000
by Roger Hummel
published in Prison Legal News
December, 2000, page 10
By Barry Scheck, Peter Nuefeld, and Jim Dwyer
Filed under:
Commentary/Reviews,
Reviews,
DNA Testing/Samples,
Criminal Prosecution,
Informants,
Public Defenders,
Wrongful Conviction,
Death Penalty.
Location:
United States of America.
Review by Roger Hummel
Since 1963, at least 381 murder convictions across the nation have been reversed because of police or prosecutorial misconduct yet not one of the prosecutors who broke the law was ever convicted or disbarred.
Twenty-seven percent of those ...
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